Jess:
Thanks for making that more clear. I was trying to …

Thanks for making that more clear. I was trying to say that brain cancer and other neurological disorders should have been ruled out before the escalation of psychiatric diagnoses. I am sure I don’t need to tell you that some medical illnesses manifest themselves with symptoms that appear to be psychiatric disease. No one checked for that. Thankfully, it was never an issue. I appreciate your expert input.

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JUST THE FAQ’SThanks for the comment, Gayle. I’m not a big fan of psychiatry and I don’t know you or your situation, but I think it’s likely that you do not have bipolar disorder if you are taking such a large dose (like me) and not experiencing mania. Bipolar disorder is one of the most over-diagnosed illnesses out there, which means many people who think they have it or are told they have it actually don’t suffer from that disease. Even studies out of the National Institutes of Health have indicated that bupropion pushes people into mania. See here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1487473. Thanks for reading!

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Every blog post was written while Chandra Bozelko was incarcerated at York Correctional Institution. Prison Diaries was the first regularly-bylined column by an incarcerated person to appear in a non-prison newspaper.